From: Urban Hafner <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2002-03-26T06:09:33+09:00
Subject: dbm/gdbm/sdbm

Hey hey,

sometimes I just need to save some values for later use with ruby on
disc. Most of the time I use dbm for this. But then I discovered that
there are also gdbm and sdbm.
What are the differences? Why are there three of them as builtins?

Not that I really need to know, I'm just curious.

Urban

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